David found himself staring out the window, the city lights blurring through his tears. He'd just learned his article, the one he had spent months working on, appeared under another writer's name. A sense of profound betrayal washed over him, leaving him feeling hollowed out.

He felt a physical ache in his shoulders, a heavy weight that seemed to pull him down. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. The career opportunities he had been counting on now felt distant and unreachable.

He turned away from the window, unable to bear the sight. He felt a wave of despair that threatened to consume him. He sank onto the couch, feeling as though he were trapped in a dark pit.

Emotion: worried

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worried. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worried stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worried emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worried vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.285
S0.279
😰0.277
😣0.269
Worse0.250
Suppressed:
la-0.476
de-0.432
🎉-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228